"Many of us are excited because we feel like there is a new level of commitment to cleaning up the Bay"
"one of the challenges we have in responding to climate change as a matter of public policy is that it can be a very abstract concept."
"Then here comes climate change to raise our awareness to another level and begin to push the public policy."
"This is a critical discussion that we're going to have today."
"I have used for myself as a way of understanding this the metaphor or analogy, I guess, of a levee that we are worried about breaching."
"I want to thank you, in particular, for this proposal because reinvigorating any program that is getting our young people out into nature is one I am a thousand percent behind."
"The OCS discussion is one that we have been having for the last couple of weeks."
"Thank you for holding the hearing."
"My time has expired, but I think you have helped make the point I am trying to make, which is that there is all this alarm about how we would be tying our hands if we went back to the moratoria that w..."
"I am curious. Before the last year or two, when you must have fully expected that the moratorium would have remained in place..."